4/18/15

Wow, what is blogging? I can hardly remember since I haven't done it at ALL lately.

Really all I have done lately is make art and hung out in the city. April has been a pretty good month for me so far. I started playing around with the app Sktchy (if you're into art and you aren't on there, you're missing out!) and it's surprising how much it has pushed me art-wise to do things I wouldn't normally do.

If you're not familiar with it, Sktchy is an app where anyone can post pictures of themselves, and other people can draw/paint/recreate them with art supplies. It's basically a place to go to find art inspiration, and also to discover other artists. Once I week (I'm pretty sure it's once I week, but that may be wrong) the app announces a new theme. This weeks was 'Aha,' so it was supposed to contain a hidden image or illusion or something. If you participate in the theme, Sktchy may pick your art to b featured, so everyone who is on there will see it. Mine have been picked twice. Anyway, it's just a fun, artistic outlet, and it also pushes your art skills.

So here are some of the things I have done for Sktchy, and a few I've just done for fun.

This one (above) was picked to be featured. The theme at the time was 'Poetic'.

This is a painting I did inspired by Kim Gordon, who's my recentest obsession. I'm reading her book Girl in A Band and I've been listening to Sonic Youth a lot as well.

Above is one of my favorites that I have done for Sktchy.

pretty much where I have spent most of my time-aside from at school-lately.

Hopefully you've enjoyed this virtual peek into my sketchbooks. All of this work is super recent, and I have started playing with gauche and colored pencils more.

I wanted to caption some of these photos, but I decided that they spoke for themselves, and left them alone.

Last weekend my family and another family that we are very close with but lives far from us met at a cabin to stay for a few days. There was no wifi in the cabin at all, and to get wifi we had to walk up the road a little bit to the main lodge. At first I was expecting to have a hard time with that, surviving without it 24/7, but it was surprising how little I missed being on my phone all the time, and eventually I hardly thought about it. While we were there, my friend Syl and I took advantage of the beautiful woods around the cabin. It was so peaceful, and being in the woods there made me feel like a fairy or something. The moss was so abundant, and there were trees everywhere. I guess living in the suburbs made me appreciate nature a lot more.